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  • No Two Alike

    PRINT TECHNOLOGY has allowed direct marketers to edge closer to the ideal of one-to-one marketing. Leading the charge is on-demand printing, which enables

  • USPS May Have Another $1 Billion Surplus

    Unless there’s a sudden and sharp decline in mail volume and revenue, the U.S. Postal Service appears to be heading toward its fourth $1 billion surplus

  • Gluttony Could Spoil Postal Feast

    YOU HAVE TO pity the U.S. Postal Service these days. Every time it turns around, there seems to be someone who wants to grab his share of the marbles.

  • Customers for Life: Applying Relationship Marketing

    THIS IS THE FINAL PART of an excerpt on relationship marketing from the upcoming third edition of David Shepard Associates’ “The New Direct Marketing”

  • Hey, What Ya Wanna Know?

    THE PRIVACY PUNDITS are whining about direct marketers in general-and database marketers in particular-having too much of the public’s personal information

  • DRTV-Blocking V-Chip Zapped

    THE DRTV and advertising industries applauded the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association’s (CEMA’s) decision to drop plans to endorse V-chips

  • Homework Assignment

    IT’S FINE AND good that the market for selling office supplies to small home offices and businesses is growing by leaps and bounds. But how can direct

  • B-to-B DMers Suffer from Market Woes

    BUSINESS-TO-business DMers couldn’t escape the stock market’s downturns during the last three months.The 32 B-to-B direct marketers tracked by Gruppo,

  • Building Muscle

    POSING FOR a portrait in his company’s lavish Woodland Hills, CA lobby, Michael Carr, president and CEO of muscle-mag publisher Weider Publications, briefly